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[expireddog]

Have tested positive for covid...How long did you lose taste and smell. I’m on day 6 and this is the craziest thing.

 

[HamSammich]

Tested positive back in August and I went 11 days with no taste or smell.

 

[Lurker.sixpack]

I had it back in June and it seemed like it came back around 3 weeks after first symptoms appeared. Good luck!

 

[11thEagleFan]

My brother had it in July and still doesn’t have it back. Seems like an extreme case though.

 

[Pak Drescott]

I tested positive back in July and only went 2 days without taste or smell

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

The people I know who had covid and lost taste and smell had it last for 3-7 days but not all of them lost taste and smell.

 

[Car Ramrod.sixpack]

Tested positive end of march and within the last few weeks I've started to get some of my sense of smell back without having to hold anything right up to my nose. I haven't lost a tremendous amount of taste but I have developed a reaction to some artificial flavorings and cultured dairy products (sour cream, yogurt and some cheeses). Since my recovery they all they taste like soapy vomit.

 

[SwampDawg]

I'm one of the lucky. Didn't lose either one. Wife had it at the same time, lost taste for a while, now doesn't like the taste of wine (more for me.)

We had it in mid-Oct.

 

[johnson86-1]

Tested positive end of march and within the last few weeks I've started to get some of my sense of smell back without having to hold anything right up to my nose. I haven't lost a tremendous amount of taste but I have developed a reaction to some artificial flavorings and cultured dairy products (sour cream, yogurt and some cheeses). Since my recovery they all they taste like soapy vomit.

Have you tried cilantro? Sounds like maybe you're mores sensitive to certain aldehydes now.

 

[WilCoDawg]

If you don’t die from COVID, did you really have it?***

 

[Car Ramrod.sixpack]

Have you tried cilantro? Sounds like maybe you're mores sensitive to certain aldehydes now.

Yea I hate cilantro, it has that strong soap taste even before I had the RONA but not as bad as what I stated above. Also the same thing that SwampDawg said about his wife and wine. Wine has started to have the same sour soapy taste just recently. Back in August the wife and I spent several days touring wineries in NE GA with no issues. All red wines (don't drink a lot of whites) have that funky taste and now we have several cases of wine from our trip that I can't enjoy.

 

[mstateglfr]

I fully lost smell for 2 days. A new can of cinnamon sticks was held up to my nose and I smelled nothing.
I never fully lost taste- I could till taste salty and sweet, but taste was dulled since its connected with smell.

 

[mstateglfr]

Yea I hate cilantro, it has that strong soap taste even before I had the RONA but not as bad as what I stated above. Also the same thing that SwampDawg said about his wife and wine. Wine has started to have the same sour soapy taste just recently. Back in August the wife and I spent several days touring wineries in NE GA with no issues. All red wines (don't drink a lot of whites) have that funky taste and now we have several cases of wine from our trip that I can't enjoy.

Maybe the funky taste is just because the wine is from Georgia?

...I kid, I kid. SEGA can produce good wine and just buy grapes if needed.

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

The wife, son and I all got it over a thanksgiving and still have it. Only my wife lost her taste and smell. No one has had higher than 99 fever except my son for about 1 hour at 100.2. The muscle aches and the respiratory issues have been with me the entire time. The headaches have never gone away, just subsided to dull then fire back up.

 

[GloryDawg]

If you don’t die from COVID, did you really have it?***

I go to a pack gym everyday. I go to the grocery store twice a week. I go to convenient store every day. I am around people everyday and the gym has no mask requirements and it is just packed with people. With that said I have yet to catch it. I have donated blood three times since March and I have not had any Anti-Bodies in my blood. My brother has had it and spent six days in ICU. My 80 year old uncle died from it and a doctor I go to church with died from it. I wonder how everyone catches it and I don't. I do wash my hands and wipe down benches at the gym before and after use but I do not wear mask and no one wears a mask. Most of those logger heads are breathing really hard. When I hear of people catching it I wonder what they did that I didn't do.

 

[Russ Wheeler]

Use it as a chance to eat healthy food.

I haven't caught the Rona yet (that I know of), but in years past when I would get a cold or sinus infection, sometimes I would lose smell/taste. I just used it as an excuse to eat extremely healthy. If I wanted to get drunk I'd just sip hard liquor.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

I go to a pack gym everyday. I go to the grocery store twice a week. I go to convenient store every day. I am around people everyday and the gym has no mask requirements and it is just packed with people. With that said I have yet to catch it. I have donated blood three times since March and I have not had any Anti-Bodies in my blood. My brother has had it and spent six days in ICU. My 80 year old uncle died from it and a doctor I go to church with died from it. I wonder how everyone catches it and I don't. I do wash my hands and wipe down benches at the gym before and after use but I do not wear mask and no one wears a mask. Most of those logger heads are breathing really hard. When I hear of people catching it I wonder what they did that I didn't do.

You have been giving yourself ozone treatments haven't you?

https://forums.sixpackspeak.com/showthread.php?215004-Wow-new-treatment-that-I-think-the-board-will-ALMOST-100-agree-to-pass-on&highlight=Ozone

 

[DoggieDaddy13]

If you don’t die from COVID, did you really have it?***

Now, that's funny! (down voters have no sense of humor, which is worse for your health than no sense of taste or smell.)

 

[mstateglfr]

I go to a pack gym everyday. I go to the grocery store twice a week. I go to convenient store every day. I am around people everyday and the gym has no mask requirements and it is just packed with people. With that said I have yet to catch it. I have donated blood three times since March and I have not had any Anti-Bodies in my blood. My brother has had it and spent six days in ICU. My 80 year old uncle died from it and a doctor I go to church with died from it. I wonder how everyone catches it and I don't. I do wash my hands and wipe down benches at the gym before and after use but I do not wear mask and no one wears a mask. Most of those logger heads are breathing really hard. When I hear of people catching it I wonder what they did that I didn't do.

In the week prior to me testing positive, I had been to the grocery store for probably 45min and to a small local college gym where i was one of 3 people inside the gym(and the other 2 didnt have it).
Its super strange how some can catch it while others dont. There have been many weeks in the last 8 months where I have been to a ton of places, but I test positive after a week where I go barely anywhere and am around very few.
Its odd.

Just wrong time and place for me, apparently.

Same seeming random results apply to how severe the symptoms are. I am relatively active and healthy and had a very mild time with the virus. Is that because I am in good shape?...maybe. Yet its killed people younger than me in better shape and its completely ruined athletes around my age me who are in incredible shape.
It will be interesting to see if researchers are ever able to correlate results with health to see why some have mild symptoms while others in similar shape/age have a rough go of it.

 

[Dawg1976]

Dumb question. For those that have had a loss of taste and smell for an extended amount of time as in weeks..... are you considered to still have cv19 or is it just a side effect that hasn't cleared?

 

[revots]

I was diagnosed with covid a week ago Monday, I have all the symptoms you read about except for lost of taste and smell, however, some things taste different like coffee.

 

[Car Ramrod.sixpack]

Dumb question. For those that have had a loss of taste and smell for an extended amount of time as in weeks..... are you considered to still have cv19 or is it just a side effect that hasn't cleared?

For my case I had absolutely no sense of smell and had 2 consecutive negative COVID tests in the following weeks after my recovery. These tests were to determine if I had antibodies so I could donate plasma. Even after almost 9 months since my recovery I still have antibodies and a decreased sense of smell.

 

[RocketDawg]

Yea I hate cilantro, it has that strong soap taste even before I had the RONA but not as bad as what I stated above. Also the same thing that SwampDawg said about his wife and wine. Wine has started to have the same sour soapy taste just recently. Back in August the wife and I spent several days touring wineries in NE GA with no issues. All red wines (don't drink a lot of whites) have that funky taste and now we have several cases of wine from our trip that I can't enjoy.

Red will keep for a long time, until you get your real taste back.

 

[RocketDawg]

I go to a pack gym everyday. I go to the grocery store twice a week. I go to convenient store every day. I am around people everyday and the gym has no mask requirements and it is just packed with people. With that said I have yet to catch it. I have donated blood three times since March and I have not had any Anti-Bodies in my blood. My brother has had it and spent six days in ICU. My 80 year old uncle died from it and a doctor I go to church with died from it. I wonder how everyone catches it and I don't. I do wash my hands and wipe down benches at the gym before and after use but I do not wear mask and no one wears a mask. Most of those logger heads are breathing really hard. When I hear of people catching it I wonder what they did that I didn't do.

You're a ticking time bomb. ** (sorta)

 

[mstateglfr]

Dumb question. For those that have had a loss of taste and smell for an extended amount of time as in weeks..... are you considered to still have cv19 or is it just a side effect that hasn't cleared?

Not a dumb question at all.
People can not have their smell/taste well after they are free of covid(no symptoms and not contagious).

 

[The Fatboy]

From what I have read the neural pathways were destroyed by the virus and the brain has to make those connections again. Its not a sensitivity to certain foods just jumbled/destroyed neurons that have to reconnect.

 

[RebelRH]

Our company office got hit with it a week before labor day. Eight out of 12 of us got it. I had some sinus congestion and felt a little dragged down. I never thought I had it until the Thursday before labor day I lost both taste and smell. Could not smell bromine tablets nor taste whiskey straight out of the bottle. I went 5 days before they came back. Worst 5 days I can remember. Hungry as hell but no appetite. Ate peanuts and crackers and drank water the whole time. We only had one person out of the 8 that had a pretty rough time for 3 days. I guess we all got lucky.

 

[GloryDawg]

In the week prior to me testing positive, I had been to the grocery store for probably 45min and to a small local college gym where i was one of 3 people inside the gym(and the other 2 didnt have it).
Its super strange how some can catch it while others dont. There have been many weeks in the last 8 months where I have been to a ton of places, but I test positive after a week where I go barely anywhere and am around very few.
Its odd.

Just wrong time and place for me, apparently.

Same seeming random results apply to how severe the symptoms are. I am relatively active and healthy and had a very mild time with the virus. Is that because I am in good shape?...maybe. Yet its killed people younger than me in better shape and its completely ruined athletes around my age me who are in incredible shape.
It will be interesting to see if researchers are ever able to correlate results with health to see why some have mild symptoms while others in similar shape/age have a rough go of it.

To add to it my kids go to Brandon High School with 1000's of other kids. Some of thier friends and parents of friends have had it and my kids have hung out with those kids and gone out to eat together. I guess if I don't get the shot I will sooner or later catch it. I am going to take the shot when it is available.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

How did the 4 underachievers avoid it?

 

[RebelRH]

How did the 4 underachievers avoid it?

We don't know. We are all in the same office area but we are not piled up on one another. We have about 15 guys in the shop just outside the office and nobody out there got it. We have no clue as to who the first person was that brought it in. It kind of hit everybody at the same time. Just glad we all got through it ok.

And if this year has not gotten bad enough Cooper Tire in Tupelo is on fire. Don't know how bad it is but it could put a lot of people out of work for a period of time. Damn this year.

 

[PirateDawg]

What is your blood type?

According to statistics if you are A you are a prime candidate to catch it. B you are not as likely as A while O type is the least likely to get the virus.

You're a ticking time bomb. ** (sorta)

 

[RocketDawg]

B+

 

[RocketDawg]

Covid's not the only thing that can cause alter your sense of taste. I had heart surgery a little over 4 years ago, and for several months after that, I had pretty extreme problems with taste. It wasn't totally loss of taste, but rather that things just didn't taste right or tasted downright bad. Coffee was one of those that tasted strange, and actually it's still not as good today as it once was. I've also lost the appetite for most meat (which might not be a bad thing).

 

[PirateDawg]

I'm A+

 

[RocketDawg]

I read a few days ago that the Pfizer (and perhaps others) vaccine only protects a person for 3 months. Hopefully we don't have to get 2 shots every 3 months.

 

[RocketDawg]

I'm A+

Ouch (if there's any truth to the blood type correlation).

 

[RocketDawg]

We don't know. We are all in the same office area but we are not piled up on one another. We have about 15 guys in the shop just outside the office and nobody out there got it. We have no clue as to who the first person was that brought it in. It kind of hit everybody at the same time. Just glad we all got through it ok.

And if this year has not gotten bad enough Cooper Tire in Tupelo is on fire. Don't know how bad it is but it could put a lot of people out of work for a period of time. Damn this year.

Googled and found several stories - bottom line seems to be no injuries and localized to one area, so hopefully it'll be able to reopen before long.

 

[GloryDawg]

Ouch (if there's any truth to the blood type correlation).

I'm A-. What does blood type have to do with it.

 

[paindonthurt_]

You can still have a lot of symptoms and not be contagious.
Same with other viruses.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Googled and found several stories - bottom line seems to be no injuries and localized to one area, so hopefully it'll be able to reopen before long.

I was the 24th person hired when they reopened. Worked for almost 10 years until I went back to college. I hope it didn't cause too much damage.

I've heard it is an entirely different place since I left in February 1992 and no one I knew is probably their but I hope folks get back to work soon.

On the Covid side, I have been sweating bullets. The wife is a nurse in a memory care home and eight patients have turned up positive in the past 2 or 3 weeks. She gets tested weekly and we've been lucky. My boys are living with us too. They lost their jobs during the shutdown and are trying to get going and out of the house again. It would be our luck to have us all catch it around Christmas.

We've been lucky so far and I attribute it to a drink or two every day. My eldest son was sick around Feb and March for about 6 or 8 weeks and we have wondered if he had it and we all have antibodies now. Doubt it but it interesting to think.